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To: gbcdoj
You've just disqualified First Constantinople.

Constantinople I was attended by five western bishops. I was not aware that there was a "critical mass" of bishops required to make it ecumenical. The Church of the West was represented.

24 posted on 06/11/2005 5:52:21 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

"An Ecumenical Council requires the presence of the Pope or his legate" - there were no legates at First Constantinople. How could the Church in the West be represented without her Patriarch, anyway?


26 posted on 06/11/2005 6:28:48 PM PDT by gbcdoj (For if thou wilt now hold thy peace, the Jews shall be delivered by some other occasion)
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